PORTLAND — Voters approved the $105 million fiscal year 2018 city school budget by a 3,140 to 890 vote Tuesday. Voters also approved a second question by 3,406 to 656, allowing any additional state aid above what was budgeted to be used to fund programs and operations, as reserve funding, or to go for property tax […]
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Baseball: Gorham skunks Sanford, falls to Cheverus
PORTLAND – The Stags posted a big fourth inning against Gorham on Saturday, wringing five singles and a walk from the Rams’ pitching to pile up three runs. With Jack Casale on the mound, Cheverus were doing everything in their power to secure a W, and secure a W they did: 5-1. “We understood going […]
Bayside's 'Anchor' a drop in the sea of Portland's housing needs
PORTLAND — Bayside Anchor was touted as a model of mixed-income, mixed-use housing at a grand opening June 7. The 45-unit, four-story building at the corner of Boyd and East Oxford streets has 36 units of low-income housing and the new home of the Portland Community Policing Station. “It is very much a blessing, I can’t […]
Principal of Deering High School in Portland announces retirement
PORTLAND — Long-time Deering High School Principal Ira Waltz is retiring at the end of the school year, the Portland Public Schools announced Tuesday. “I am sad to see Ira go, but I respect his decision,” Superintendent of Schools Xavier Botana said in a press release. “As with everything that Ira has done, his decision […]
Portland city councilors to take up regulation of pesticides
PORTLAND — Getting the bugs out will be a big topic for the City Council Sustainability & Transportation Committee this summer. The committee will begin to consider how to regulate pesticide use in a meeting on June 21 at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall. The panel, led by Councilor Spencer Thibodeau, includes Councilors Belinda Ray and Jill […]
Portland attorney honored for focus on social, economic justice
PORTLAND — Local attorney Jerrol Crouter received this year’s Equal Justice Hero Award from Maine Equal Justice Partners for demonstrating “an unwavering commitment to equity and justice.” Crouter is a partner at the Drummond Woodsum law firm, was one of the founding members of Maine Equal Justice Partners and for the past 20 years has […]
Portland attorney honored for focus on social, economic justice
PORTLAND — Local attorney Jerrol Crouter received this year’s Equal Justice Hero Award from Maine Equal Justice Partners for demonstrating “an unwavering commitment to equity and justice.” Crouter is a partner at the Drummond Woodsum law firm, was one of the founding members of Maine Equal Justice Partners and for the past 20 years has […]
Festival to bring free music to Portland
PORTLAND — Filling the city with sound is the goal of the annual Make Music Portland festival, which will have its fifth anniversary next week. Held every year on the summer solstice, musicians – ranging from full-fledged bands to soloists – will display their talent at a variety of both public and private locations around […]
Hundreds turn out to say goodbye to Portland school
PORTLAND — Walking the halls of their former school Saturday, many Hall Elementary alumni said not much had changed – including how the school smelled. “It smells just the same,” many said as they strolled the building for probably the last time. The Alumni Open House held June 10 gave attendees a chance to reminisce, while […]
Portland restaurateur, Aroostook farmers boost Maine buckwheat
PORTLAND — Tak Sato wants Japanese buckwheat to take the country by storm, with the whirlwind starting on an Aroostook County farm. “American people need this food; it is very good for the body,” Sato said June 7 at his Yosaku restaurant on Danforth Street. Classified as a fruit seed, the flour from gluten-free buckwheat is the […]